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Storyline
Howling Fjord Hell Has Frozen Over... If Valgarde Falls... Rescuing the Rescuers Prisoners of Wyrmskull Into the World of Spirits The Human League The Path to Payback The Echo of Ymiron Zedd's Probably Dead And Then There Were Two... The Depths of Depravity The Ring of Judgment Stunning Defeat at the Ring Return to Valgarde The Explorers' League Outpost Locating the Mechanism Anguish of Nifflevar Dragonflayer Battle Plans To Westguard Keep! Meet Lieutenant Icehammer... Drop It then Rock It! Harpoon Master Yavus It Goes to 11... Let's Go Surfing Now Tools to Get the Job Done Out of My Element? We Can Rebuild It We Have the Technology Iron Rune Constructs and You: Rocket Jumping Iron Rune Constructs and You: Collecting Data Iron Rune Constructs and You: The Bluff Lightning Infused Relics The Delicate Sound of Thunder News From the East The Clutches of Evil Mage-Lieutenant Malister Two Wrongs... Report to Scout Knowles The Dead Rise! Elder Atuik and Kamagua Grezzix Spindlesnap Feeding the Survivors Street "Cred" Arming Kamagua "Scoodles" Forgotten Treasure Avenge Iskaal The Staff of Storm's Fury The Frozen Heart of Isuldof The Lost Shield of the Aesirites The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir Gambling Debt The Fragrance of Money Mutiny on the Mercy Jack Likes His Drink A Traitor Among Us Sorlof's Booty Dead Man's Debt Zeh'gehn Sez The Shield of the Aesirites A Carver and a Croaker A Return to Resting "Crowleg" Dan Return to Atuik Meet Number Two The Jig is Up Mission: Eternal Flame Mission: Package Retrieval Mission: Forsaken Intel Absholutely... Thish Will Work! You Tell Him ...Hic! Mission: Plague This! Operation: Skornful Wrath Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom All Hail the Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen In Service to the Light Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Down to the Wire The Yeti Next Door I'll Try Anything! Spirits of the Ice The Fallen Sisters Wild Vines Spawn of the Twisted Glade Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers Keeper Witherleaf The Book of Runes Mastering the Runes The Rune of Command March of the Giants The Lodestone Demolishing Megalith See to the Operations I've Got a Flying Machine! Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Cleansing In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg

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Comment by 149705

Kill any of the Winterskorn in the area, then use your Machete on them.

Also, look for Vrykul Scroll of Ascension to drop

Comment by 203693

The prequest to this one is "Operation:Skornful Wrath":
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11248

You will be rewarded with a "Westguard Command Insignia" http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=33311 to start this quest.

Also note this will also open up two extra side quests:

Towers of Certain Doom:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11245

Burn Skorn, Burn!:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11247

After completition of these three quests, this will open up:

All Hail the Conqueror of Skorn!:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11250

Which itself after completition will open another new series of quests:

Of Keys And Cages:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11231

It is also worth mentioning that as of Beta build 8885 the rewards datamined here are wrong.

At level 70 you will get:

20100 Experience points.
4 Gold, 70 Silver.
And 250 reputation with the Valiance Expedition.

Needless to say, this quest should be listed as "Available to Alliance players" unfortunately it does not appear to be listed accurately in the database as of 2008/09/03.

What a mess, at this point, all the quests chains and their pre-requisites are dismantled. :-(

Comment by wyhn

Gains:

+250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Comment by 152722

What does "dismember" mean?

Comment by 178912

Do NOT loot the corpse before you use the machete, it will not work, just the machete, then loot, simple!

Comment by Eliva2009

I think by different undeath they mean respawn

Comment by 118286

if you can fly you can dismember the vrykul at the top of the towers after they are killed by the bombing

Comment by 488326

Completed the quest, dismembered all 20 bodies, to turn the quest in it indicated I had to go to the center of the village. Nothing or nobody there to turn the quest into. I maybe do something wrong here?

Comment by 133394

ok i was doing this quest on my priest, he has his flyer, at the same time as i was doing the tower burning quest
i was able to use a flare to mark a tower then fly up to the dead casters (as a result of the flare) and dismember them, didnt have to kill individual mobs, at least not after i found out i could do this.

Comment by 1440987

Gruesome, But Necessary http://youtu.be/Im0FCK6vmCE

Comment by Boxofbeer

Gruesome, But Necessary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQkAAFzr4f4

Comment by Oceandust

You need to use an item in your bags called the Westguard Command Insignia. This will call a Westguard Sergeant to your side. This will allow you to turn in this quest as well as Towers of Certain Doom and Burn Skorn, Burn! if you also have those completed.

Comment by Anarchius

This quest cracked me up. I liked how he was all scared of me once I was done chopping up the bodies and warely asked for his machete back. I missed him when the quest was over.

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Gruesome, But Necessary

The Westguard Sergeant has asked you to use The Sergeant's Machete to dismember 20 Vrykul of the Winterskorn tribe at Skorn.

	Winterskorn Vrykul Dismembered (20)

Provided item:

	The Sergeant's Machete (1)

Description

We've had reports that these vrykul can rise from the dead; not unlike the Scourge, but a different kind of undeath.

Let's not take any chances.

Here, take my machete. As we move through this place, you'll need to carve up the remains of the vrykul that we take down. I'd do it, but I have a sensitive stomach.

<The sergeant smirks.>

I spent all morning sharpening it, so it should do the job.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11246))